You could also try one of the Permedia II card, they seem to work well in
Alphas. In know that 3DLabs are still selling a PCI oxygen ACX card.
Anybody tried one of these in a UX?
--rdp
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:
> Apologies.. shows exactly how much I know currently.. it looks
> like what AlphaBIOS sounds like...
>
> I may have to hunt down a Mill II then..
>
> L.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 6:17 PM
> > To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> > Subject: RE: ATI Rage Pro (Xpert@Play)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:
> >
> > > It's AlphaBIOS, I'll have another poke at it this evening
> >
> > Not on a UX! It's ARCSBios, which is't ARC BIOS or AlphaBIOS.
> > The UX has
> > it's own firmware and doesn't support AlphaBIOS or SRM.
> >
> > Chances are that the card's BIOS isn't making it through the x86 BIOS
> > emulator in the firmware.
> >
> > --rdp
> >
> > > 2MB just isn't enough for me :)
> > >
> > >
> > > L.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: zank [mailto:zank@a324c.a.tu-berlin.de]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 7:02 PM
> > > > To: axp-list@redhat.com
> > > > Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro (Xpert@Play)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Liam,
> > > > are you using SRM or AlphaBIOS?
> > > > Something similar happened to me with an avanti with SRM:
> > > > after replacing a
> > > > DEC-card by an ATIxpert@work,
> > > > i just got a black screen, nevertheless some (invisible...)
> > > > system activity.
> > > > I put back the old one, switched from srm to alphabios,
> > > > installed the ati-card
> > > > once again and -voila- it worked!
> > > > In general, most ATI cards seem to work fine.
> > > > Bye,
> > > > V. Zank.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I've been looking through the archives (for this list,
> > > > comp.os.linux.alpha,
> > > > > and for linux-alpha), and I can't seem to get definite info
> > > > on this. I have
> > > > > just acquired an Alpha PC164UX (Ruffian) board. I'm
> > > > currently using an S3
> > > > > Vision 868 (Diamond Stealth Video 2MB) and it works okay
> > > > (in general, some
> > > > > corruption in X). I have an ATI Rage Pro card
> > (Xpert@Play). I tried
> > > > > it for a while, and I couldn't get the machine to boot
> > > > (black screen). Is
> > > > > this card supported (or do I need an AlphaBIOS upgrade or
> > > > something like
> > > > > that?)
> > > > >
> > > > > L.
> > > > >
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